Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

Tara Brach, PhD

Jan 2012 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

About this audiobook

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork-all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach's twenty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.

Ratings and reviews

Greetings - was turned onto Tara Brach, PH.D. by my general physician. Dr. C is also a spiritual person - i.e. a Buddhist. He knows I'm into growth - stretching myself - hungry for knowledge. Anything that can move me forward - get me to change and tweak what needs to be changed and tweaked. He sent me to You Tube, where Tara generously has many many You Tube videos. I've watched perhaps 20 this month alone - have adopted "Radical Acceptance/Tara Brach" as my new tele-mentor. She's just wonderful, you can't believe how much you can change (or gain insight into) merely by listening. Also, Tara is an anxiety aid - and I go to You Tube/Tara when triggered. I'm grateful this is available, especially grateful it's on sale right now. -jk

Author speaks a lot about themselves, which made me lose focus however, I got through the book and intend to listen to it again to really grasp the message about radical acceptance. Recommended.

"Just suck it up and move on" AKA bypass, accept and forget it ever happened. This book was recommended by a therapist and I have never been so disappointed in a "professional".

About the author

Tara Brach, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and popular teacher of mindfulness (vipassana) meditation. She is founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and teaches meditation at centers throughout the United States. She is also the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge.

Actress and director Cassandra Campbell has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has received multiple Audie Awards and more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman.